Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> writes: > On 10/7/10 7:51 AM, "Valentin Villenave" <valen...@villenave.net> wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Carl Sorensen <c_soren...@byu.edu> wrote: >>> I think I'd prefer desired-distance to optimal-distance. optimal distance >>> is what the algorithms actually end up with, as a tradeoff between desired >>> distance and the amount of stuff on a page. >> >> How about requested- rather than desired-? > > requested- or base- (like David suggested). > > I like base-; it's shorter to type, and it still carries the right > connotation.
It is also consistent with the naming of the baseline-skip property. It would be more so if that were named base-lineskip (as I thought it were). Since that is actually a reminiscence of the TeX spacing trio \baselineskip, \lineskiplimit, \lineskip, this hyphenation would have made more sense to me. However, looking at the program code of TeX, I find the Pascal constant name constituents baseline_skip, line_skip and line_skip_limit. Quite in line with the hyphenation of Lilypond's property names. Bah. I still find base-distance a nice name and somewhat mnemonically related to baseline-skip. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
